Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy was here last week when I said we would be back again next Wednesday and I would bring a detailed submission and guidelines to Cabinet on Friday. That has not changed. I cannot determine when I am and am not in here. I am absolutely delighted to be back, and today is an opportunity for Deputies, as representatives of their communities and constituencies, to put forward advice as to who they want to see included. The Deputy knows that on Friday we will have the guidelines and a roadmap for the reopening of schools in August and September. He knows these things, so there is no point in coming in here making a song and dance about lack of information or saying we do not have this or that. He already knows this. It is important we are clear, and I will continue to engage here. Today I see all the same faces back again when I look around. They have made constructive suggestions, and I know they will do so again today.

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